Kelly Manning

Kelly Manning's professional career in visual arts spans a 20 year period. For most of that, she has resided in Melbourne and has formal training in printmaking and painting and holds a degree with honors in Drawing from the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology. During that time, she also completed an artist in residence program at St Vincent's Hospital for a period of 9 months. This residency prompted her visit to Vietnam to research the Vietnam War and its after effects. Residing in Hanoi for 7 months enabled Manning to immerse herself in the Vietnamese culture, and she then produced The Quiet, a solo show about the resilience of the Vietnamese for Maroondah Regional Gallery.
As a child of a Vietnam Veteran, Manning had an early insight on war and a dark view of the world. Manning's father was obsessed with his experience as a soldier and collected every book, video and memorabilia he could find. His extensive collection of war was Manning's visual experience of the outside world - morbid and grotesque. Manning began producing art cathartically, through the mediums of painting and printmaking. Also compelled to explore a troubled childhood, her focus was of the anatomy, the diseased and toxic body, forensics and the psycholog...

2013 Cert of Tattooing, The Academy of Tattooing, Melbourne, Victoria.
2008 Cert II Multi-Media, NMIT, Melbourne, Victoria.
2002 Honours in Fine Arts, Drawing, RMIT, Melbourne, Victoria.
2001 Bachelor of Fine Arts, Drawing, RMIT, Melbourne, Victoria.
1999 Visual Arts Diploma, Printmaking, RMIT Tafe, Carlton, Victoria.
1993 Associate Diploma in Fine Arts, Painting, Hunter Institute of Technology, Newcastle, N.S.W.

solo exhibitions
2006 Space In-Between, City Lights, Melbourne, Victoria.
2005 The Quiet, Maroondah Regional Gallery, Victoria.
2003 Standing Room Only, Aikenhead Gallery, Fitzroy, Victoria.
2002 Heirloom, Aikenhead Gallery, Fitzroy, Victoria.

group exhibitions
2012 Traditional Artists are Priests/Contemporary Artists are Whores, Seventh Gallery, Melbourne,
Victoria.
2012 Beautiful Art for Innocent Children, Mori Gallery, Sydney, N.S.W.
2011 The Brunswick Show, Horse Bazaar, Melbourne, Victoria.
2011 Identity, Forty Five Downstairs Gallery, Melbourne, Victoria.
2010 21@21, Easey Street Studios, Collingwood, Victoria.
2009 Nam Bang, Casula Powerhouse Museum, Sydney, N.S.W.
2009 Tips for Anxious Gardeners, The Library Artspace, Fitzroy, Victoria.
2008 The Dollshouse Gallery, Preston, Victoria.
2007 Linden Postcard Show, Linden Gallery, Victoria.
2005 Dominique Segan Drawing Prize, Old Castlemaine Gaol, Victoria.
2004 Metro 5 Award, Metro 5 Gallery, Armadale, Victoria.